A number of Xfce applications (Xfce Terminal and Thunar for example) support the standard ​GTK+ way of changing shortcuts: simply hover over the menu option with the mouse pointer and press the keyboard shortcut you want to rebind it to.

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A number of Xfce applications (Thunar, for example) support the standard ​GTK2 way of changing shortcuts: simply hover over the menu option with the mouse pointer and press the keyboard shortcut you want to rebind it to.

To delete a keyboard assignment, press the {key>​Backspace} key while you are on the menu entry.

To delete a keyboard assignment, press the {key>​Backspace} key while you are on the menu entry.

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If the shortcut doesn'​t change, then you need to enable the feature in GTK+. This can be achieved in 3 ways:

If the shortcut doesn'​t change, then you need to enable the feature in GTK+. This can be achieved in 3 ways:

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* You can enable {gui>​Editable menu accelerators} in the **[[:​xfce:​xfce4-settings:​appearance|User Interface Preferences]]** dialog.

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* If you are running the Xfce desktop environment, ​enable {gui>​Editable menu accelerators} in the **[[:​xfce:​xfce4-settings:​appearance#​menu_and_buttons|User Interface Preferences]]** dialog.

* If you are running GNOME then you can enable {gui>​Editable menu accelerators} in the {gui>​Menu and Toolbars} control center dialog.

* If you are running GNOME then you can enable {gui>​Editable menu accelerators} in the {gui>​Menu and Toolbars} control center dialog.

* Otherwise put the following in your ~/​.gtkrc-2.0 file (create the file if it doesn'​t exist):\\ ''​gtk-can-change-accels=1''​

* Otherwise put the following in your ~/​.gtkrc-2.0 file (create the file if it doesn'​t exist):\\ ''​gtk-can-change-accels=1''​

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<note warning>​When ''​xfsettingsd''​ is running you must change the setting with the Xfce GUI, not through the ''​.gtkrc-2.0''​ file.</​note>​

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<note important>​This functionality has been disabled since GTK3 which means that Xfce apps that have migrated to GTK3 (such as xfce4-terminal) do not support it.\\

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Refer to specific app's documentation to learn how to configure its shortcuts.</​note>​